• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.277-285
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• 2024

Unlike traditional rituals, modern Korean death rituals are carried out through ritual space caqlled a 'funeral home'. and the 'corpse clothes' the last garment worn by the deceased, is recognized as the most important ritual element. In this study, we will discuss the perceptions of tradition through the change of the corpse clothes. There are two types of clothing used for the deceased in Confucian literature centered on "Jujagarye" and "Sugui worn by the deceased through the procedures of the custom" and corpse clothing used to add clothes at Soryom(小殮) and Daeryom(大斂). However, it was investigated that through the Japanese colonial rule, the procedures for Seup(襲), Soryom(小殮) and Daeryom(大斂) were integrated, and the clothes to be worn by the deceased were changed to "sui" through the family ritual rule in 1969 as corpse clothes continued. Through this, the last garment of the deceased, the "wet robe," was changed into the "shroud" and settled, and it is meaningful to continue the discussion about what is right and what should be inherited from the perspective of "tradition" that we perceive.